The growth of studios for artists with learning disabilities

What is it about?

This article looks at the history of the growth around the world of specialist supported studios for artists with learning and cognitive disabilities, from the 1970s to the present. It examines the emergence of a new stream of art making that was made possible only by the emergence of such studios and suggests that they function as a kind of art academy, in the sense of nineteenth-century European academies, rather than modern art schools.

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Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash

Why is it important?

This was the first academic article to cover this subject, from an art historical point of view.